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Posted by: Warren, June 19th, 2019, 10:02pm

I was contacted on my website, seems legit:

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New message via your Wix website, from ishola4president2031@gmail.com
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no-reply@parastorage.com
Thu 20/06/2019 11:58 AM
Inbox
To:
warren_duncan@hotmail.com;

A site visitor just submitted a new Contact Form
https://warrenhduncan.wixsite.com/screenwriter
Message Details:
Name:
Ishola Adewale David
Email:
ishola4president2031@gmail.com
Subject:
Script to buy
Message:
Good day sir , my name is Ishola Adewale David, a Nigerian ,I am an unknown upcoming actor ,I do see movies you wrote and I really want you to sell a script to my producer to make us stand out from other movies produced in Nigeria .... My producer name : Kings
Entertainment Phone no :+2348113442427 Please kindly get back to us to know what it will take .Thank you .

Posted by: Grandma Bear, June 19th, 2019, 10:13pm; Reply: 1

Here's more for your shits & giggles thread.

These two emails were just from yesterday...

"Hi Pia my name is Ron I would love to shoot INITIATION
Sent from my iPhone"

"Hi Pia, I'm planning to shoot ten shorts this year. I'd like you to be the writer. I want thrillers and sci-fi. Only a couple of characters and locations. 4-7 pages.
Oh, and I always play the lead myself. Keeps cost down."

Posted by: Warren, June 19th, 2019, 10:19pm; Reply: 2

Quoted from Grandma Bear

Both excellent examples :p

People are strange.

Posted by: MarkRenshaw, June 20th, 2019, 2:29am; Reply: 3

Quoted from Warren

I was contacted on my website, seems legit:

Congratulations! You've made it to the big time!

The only emails I get to my website are strange random gibberish.

Posted by: AnthonyCawood, June 20th, 2019, 3:31am; Reply: 4

Nigerian film scene is pretty big, i wouldnt dismiss it out of hand 8;-)

Posted by: DustinBowcot (Guest), June 20th, 2019, 3:44am; Reply: 5

Quoted from AnthonyCawood

Nigerian film scene is pretty big, i wouldnt dismiss it out of hand 8;-)

I'll echo this. Nollywood is getting bigger. Fair warning though, they won't be able to pay much. In Nollywood the actors are mostly paid with room and board.

Posted by: Warren, June 20th, 2019, 4:00am; Reply: 6

Quoted from AnthonyCawood

Nigerian film scene is pretty big, i wouldnt dismiss it out of hand 8;-)

I haven't, already sent him my back account details. Apparently he has some long lost inheritance he's going to send me to fund a film. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: Grandma Bear, June 20th, 2019, 10:54am; Reply: 7

I think Nigeria has people skeptical because of the notorious email scams, but Breanne, my SS writing hero, and myself have both had films made there. The quality of mine wasn't that great, but the people were sincere and took it seriously. I think Breanne's film went on do do well at festivals.

Good Luck! 8)